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Originally Posted by tballump
I believe I read somewhere long ago that a "change of direction" was considered a stop at one time. It seems like it was from a series of articles written by Nick Bremingan (who was the rules instructor at the Bill Kinnamon umpire school) for "Referee" magazine.
By the laws of physics, when there was a change of direction, there had to have been a stop, and therefor a change of direction technically met the definition of a stop for OBR. I do not know if that is the same ruling now.
You would need some of the veteran umpires to bring us up to speed from that old interpretation to whatever the interpretation is now.
Veterans chime in.
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Change of direction was sufficient in NCAA ball until relatively recently.
AFAIK, it hasn't been acceptable in OBR for many years.